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NASA’s Perseverance Sets Off-World Record for Total Distance Driven

This animated orbital-map view shows the route NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has taken from time of its 2021 landing to Oct.
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NASA’s SPHEREx Telescope Sees Menagerie of Brown Dwarfs

NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) space telescope ...
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NASA’s SunRISE Mission Targets No Earlier Than Mid-2027 Launch

NASA’s SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment) mission will launch no earlier than mid-2027. The heliophysics ...
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Catches Stunning Martian Dawn

The captivating shapes of wind-carved crags called yardangs are revealed in this zoomed-in crop of a broader panorama ...
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NASA’s Roman Team Snaps Test Coronagraph Image

“This observation confirms that the instrument can produce a focused image,” said Vanessa Bailey, a Roman Coronagraph Instrument scientist at NASA JPL. “It’s a very limited test that kicks off a ...
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NASA Selects Far-Infrared Telescope as First in New Mission Class

NASA announced Wednesday a mission to explore the history and evolution of the universe, PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics), is advancing to the next phase of development. This space ...
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NASA Discovery Reveals Complex Water Systems on Early Mars

A new study reveals that Jezero Crater’s enigmatic ‘Margin Unit’ was shaped by a complex sequence of ancient lakes, groundwater systems, and hydrothermal fluids. When NASA’s Perseverance rover reached ...
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NASA Tests Featherweight Radar Antenna for SkyFall Mars Helicopters

The hardware will enable the SkyFall mission’s trio of planetary rotorcraft to use ground-penetrating radar to study the Martian subsurface. When the trio of NASA’s SkyFall helicopters takes to the ...
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NASA Awards 2026 Innovative Technology Concepts

JPL is leading three of the 18 visionary concepts awarded funding by an innovation incubator program at NASA. The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program has created 18 new awards to support ...
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers Field of Honeycomb Textures

Mission scientists have never seen so many of the many-sided geologic features in one place on the Red Planet. As NASA’s Curiosity rover recently began climbing up a Martian valley nicknamed “Valle ...